Master Nursery Gardeners Gold

[Raistlin Majere]

hello guys
i got a couple of these bags of soil and wondered how they work ?
i did do a search but only found one older thread and no responce as to how the soil worked out for them

product info is

Gardeners Gold[tm] Organic Potting Soil - 2 Cubic Feet
A rich, all natural blend of finely screened, composted fir bark fines, worm castings, real topsoil, redwood peat moss, chicken manure, and sand. pH balanced with dolomite and oyster shell limes. Rich in long-lasting plant nutrients. Water saving formula. Provides excellent drainage. Good for all indoor or outdoor container plants.

seems good to me
i would like to use this soil up before i start mixing my own up(LC's mix)

i have
kelp meal
green sand
dried blood
bone meal
perlite and vermiculite
D-lime

ok question is i want to just water through to harvest
wondering if i could/should add my ammendments to the soil
i though about mixing them in just as directed in the LC mix recipie

i don't want to make to hot a mix, should i just do half the recomended mix ?
for the organic food source that is

LC’s Soiless Mix #1:
5 parts Canadian Spaghnam Peat or Coir or Pro-Moss
3 parts perlite
2 parts wormcastings or mushroom compost or home made compost
Powdered dolomite lime @ 2 tablespoons per gallon or 1 cup per cubic foot of the soiless mix.
...Wal-Mart now sells worm castings.

Now for the plants organic food source

RECIPE #1
If you want to use organic nutes like blood, bone and kelp...
Dry Ferts:
1 tablespoon blood meal per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
2 tablespoons bone meal per gallon or 1 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
1-tablespoon kelp meal per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of soil mix or Maxicrop 1-0-4 powdered kelp extract as directed
1 tablespoon per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of Jersey Greensand to supplement the K (potasium) in the Kelp Meal and seaweed extract.
Mix all the dry ferts into the soiless mix well and wet it, but don't soak it with Liquid Karma and water @ 1 tbs./gal. Stir and mix it a few times a week for a week or two so the bacteria can get oxygen and break down the bone meal and make it available. And don't let the mix dry out, keep it moist and add water as needed. It'll also have time to get the humic acids in the Liquid Karma going and the dolomite lime will be better able to adjust the pH of a peat based mixture too.

so the mix would be 7 parts Gardeners Gold instead of EWC and Canadian Spaghnam Peat or Coir or Pro-Moss
make sense ? cause i am confused LOL
i dont want to make it to confusing/hard for myself
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aside from my question/post
they also have this

Bumper Crop® Organic Soil Amendment - East Coast
A blend of sphagnum peat moss, composted fish bones & lobster shells, composted chicken & cow manure, peat humus, blood meal, kelp/seaweed and aged bark fines. An all purpose pre-fertilized planting and garden soil amendment. Excels as a nutrient rich top dressing and mulch.

seems like FFOF without the pricetag






thanks for your time in reading and responding

 

[pseudostelariae]

in my experience that stuff is basically the same as fox farm.

my ladies hated it because i tried to feed them too soon after the transplant into it which made me believe that soil is pretty hot as it comes.

to be quite honest i hated that soil as well as ffof. nothing but trouble for me.... i will never use anything with dry amendments mixed in again.

it would probably work well to transplant mature plants into without extra feeding though... good luck!

 

[Raistlin Majere]

thanks for the reply pseudostelariae

it seemed similar to FF products to me to
a question for you,
the GG says it already has D-lime added as a PH buffer
was it enough for you, or did you have cal/mag problems ?

 

[pseudostelariae]

i would suggest adding some extra dolomite or glacial rock dust because i had to supplement with epsom salts a few weeks into flowering.

my plants never seem to have enough magnesium, and to a lesser degree calcium in the soil. cal/mag clears it up but i would rather not use it if i could figure out how much lime/rock dust to put in the soil without overdoing it.

:edit: no problem dude! very nice picture

 

[Raistlin Majere]

i would suggest adding some extra dolomite or glacial rock dust because i had to supplement with epsom salts a few weeks into flowering.

my plants never seem to have enough magnesium, and to a lesser degree calcium in the soil. cal/mag clears it up but i would rather not use it if i could figure out how much lime/rock dust to put in the soil without overdoing it.

:edit: no problem dude! very nice picture

Powdered dolomite lime @ 2 tablespoons per gallon or 1 cup per cubic foot

there are your measurements
thanks for your time in answering

 

[Jon]

I'm currently vegging with master nursery. I planned on switching to ffof for flowering but I might just stick with master nursery for economic purposes. I vegged and flowered a grand daddy purple last year in gardener's gold.